After months of disagreement in Bosnia over the route of a Turkish-backed highway between Sarajevo and Belgrade, Bosnia is poised to give the project the green light, but it still faces much uncertainty.
On March 5, Bosnia’s transport ministry signed off on the route – north as well as south after political leaders failed to agree on a single path – and the state government and tripartite presidency should have their say in a matter of weeks.
The documentation will then go to Turkey, which has promised to back construction of what President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has called the “highway of peace”, connecting two cities on opposite sides of the 1992-95 Bosnian war.
Analysts, however, warn there is still much uncertainty over the project.
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